Piling mechanism.



W. M. GUSTIN.

PIISING MEGHANISM. APPLICATION' FILED No.4, 1912.

COLUMNA mum C0.. WASHINGTON. D. c,

UNITED sTATEs PATENT orrron.,

WILLIAM M. GUSTIN, OF JAMAICA PLAIN, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO CHARLES D. W. HALSEY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PILING MECHANISM.

Losetas.

Speccation of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 30, 1913.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM M. GUs'rIN, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Jamaica Plain, county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an lmprovement in Piling Mechanism, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like characters on the drawings representing like parts.

In dieing out cloth fabric for shoe linings and like uses it is customary to unwind the cloth from the roll as it is supplied coinmeroially and arrange the same in a stack of superposed folds of convenient length and as thick as can be died out at a single operation.

F or this purpose it is essential that each fold be free from seams or like imperfections throughout its length and it is a prime object of my invention to provide means whereby a mechanism preferably automatically operating is adapted to lay the cloth in superposed folds of a length such that seams within a length are avoided and the whole of the cloth laid out in full length folds without odd short pieces to occasion trouble in cutting up, or waste.

To this end my invention provides means whereby the lengths of the folds of successive fold stacks may be readily varied in such a way that all the cloth is used in full length folds, the change being made from one length to another quickly and easily.

The invention will be better understood from the following detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and will be thereafter pointed out in the appended claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a central longitudinal vertical section through an apparatus wherein my invention is embodied; and Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof.

A piling table is indicated at 10 having brackets 11 at one end with bearings 12 for a roll of cloth 13 which is to be laid in folds. A piling car is indicated at 14 running on tracks 15 extending lengthwise of the table at the sides thereof. This car is shown as provided with elevated guides 16 mounted on a frame work upstanding from the body of the car, one of these guides being at the end of the car nearest the cloth roll mo-unting and the other being approximately central of the length of the car. Beneath the latter of the guides 16 are mounted a pair of spaced apart guide rolls 17, these rolls being fitted in bearings on the relatively low body of the car, and said rolls being alternately active to feed out the cloth as the car runs back and forth. To hold the folds of cloth as thus laid, at the ends I provide holders 18, 19 adjacent the respective ends of the table adapted to receive holding rods for the successive folds on top of one another. The rods for holding the folds are preferably supplied successively to these holders by automatic feeding mechanisms 2O from magazine holders 2l at the respective ends of the car. In accordance with my invention the rod holder 18 is stationary but the rod holder 19 is mounted for adjustment lengthwise of the table being carried by a car 22 mounted on suitable tracks 23 adjacent one end of the table. rlhis car is adapted to hold the holder 19 in any desired one of a number of adjusted positions and for this purpose the car is adapted to be secured to the table as by a holding bolt 24 passing through the bracket 25 depending from the car, this bolt passing through the proper one of a series of spaced apart holes 26 adjacent one end of the table frame work. The car 22 also preferably carries a coperative part of the mechanism for operating the automatic rod feeding mechanism 20 on the car 14, this mechanism being shown as a rack section 27 held by the car 22.

Vth the described construction, the car 22 is set at a proper point so that the movement of the car 14 back and forth between the allotted limits will measure off folds of a suitable length, say five yards. If now, it happens that a seam is encountered which leaves a stretch of cloth from the last fold somewhat greater or less than the stack of folds just produced, the holding rods deposited in the holder 19 are removed, the bolt 24 withdrawn and the car 22 adjusted so that the seam or rather the cut in the cloth made thereat is substantially coincident with the holder 19 and thus comes at a fold instead of in the stretch of cloth between folds. The succeeding folds are built up on this new length until the next seam is encountered and if this happens to fall at a point requiring another like adjustment of the car 22 this is again quickly and easily made in the manner described. Thus stacks 110 of cloth layers properly piled can be built up without short lengths of cloth or waste being left over and with all the seams coming at the folds at the ends of the several lengths.

I am aware that this invention can be embodied in various other specific forms without departing from the spirit thereof and I therefore do not desire to be limited to the precise structure or embodiment shown and l refer to the appended claims rather than to the foregoing description to indicate the scope of my invention.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters atent is:

l. Apparatus of the kind described, comprising a piling table, a fixed mounting for a roll of cloth at one end of said table, a traveling carrier with provision for piling cloth in superposed folds guided 0n said table, said carrier having at each of its ends a magazine holder for folding rods with an automatic feed therefrom, a fixed rod receiver adjacent the end of the table at which the roll of cloth is mounted and a second rod receiver formed as a car guided on a track adjacent the other end of the table for receiving the folding rods, and equipped with provision for actuating the said automatic feed thereof.

2. Apparatus of the kind described, comprising a piling table, a fixed mounting for a roll of cloth at one end of said table, a car guided by tracks on said table with provision for piling cloth in superposed folds, a fixed rod holder adjacent the end of the table at which the roll of cloth is mounted, and a second car also guided on the table by tracks within said first named tracks adjacent the other end thereof with provision for receiving and holding folding rods, and equipped with means for fixing the same to the table in any one of a series of determinate positions.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this application, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

VVLLIAM M. GUSTIN. lVitnesses:

CLiN'roN E. LAWRENCE, GEORGE F. JAMES.

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